Dear Gunnar;

"A little ironic if we use SIL material to promote Buddhism - that's
definitively not what they want us to do, as it's actually an
extremely controversial Christian missionary organization;"

I' aware of that, but the software is open sourced, no restrictions as
far as I'm aware.

Even though SIL is associated with Wycliffe Bible translators, SIL
still produces some of the most practical works on translation and
software that can be used for translation.

Buddhism has traditions of translation probably as ancient as
Christianity, in Sinhalese, Mon (See DuPont's Narada Jataka), Tai
Yuan, Burmese (nissaya), one day these traditions will get more
attention. Justin McDaniels at UC RIverside, who did his PhD on
parallel translations between Pali and Tai Yuan (Chiang Mai), is
coming out with a book this year. I'm doing a mini-review of the
literature for learning Mon for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Studies.
Someone even proposed a panel on textual transmission for the upcoming
Asian Studies Association meeting in Chicago. One might even say that
translation as a part of textual transmission between cultures is an
up and coming field, though people like Ludwik Sternbach traced Indian
Suphasita through India and Southeast Asia decades ago.

Sincerely,
Jon Fernquest

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Gunnar Gällmo <gunnargallmo@...> wrote:
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> --- Den lör 2008-07-26 skrev Jon Fernquest <bayinnaung@...>:
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> The Summer Institute of Linguistics has some interlinear translation
> software for free. A version has been updated for unicode. It's also
> useful for making dictionaries and glossaries:
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> http://www.sil org/computing/ shoebox/
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> A little ironic if we use SIL material to promote Buddhism - that's
definitively not what they want us to do, as it's actually an
extremely controversial Christian missionary organization; see
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Institute_of_Linguistics
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> There dictionaries etc. are quite useful, though (and for some
languages the only ones existing, if I am correctly informed).
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> Gunnar
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